Mumbai based visual effects expert comes up with series based on city

Hailing from a family with an advertising background, it was natural for Yohan Wadia to want to get into the creative arts. A visual effects instructor at FX school by profession, he admits he likes to think out of the box and much of his free time is spent on designing T-shirts and creating artworks. The graphic designer who had worked along with a team on the post-production of films like Ram Gopal Varma’s 26/11, has currently come up with a series of visuals based on the city. “When I was younger while travelling by train, I’d often look at station board names and found most of them quite unusual.

I had this perception of Andheri as a dark place. I guess everyone has totally different and whacky perceptions about places and things as children. I’m happy not to lose any of it,” says Yohan who has used these to create posters on different areas of Mumbai. While Wadala is depicted by a vada pav, a tipped over bowl of curry depicts Currey Road while Bhayander shows a bhai behind bars. “I’m attracted to word break-ups,” he says explaining, how he usually has a clear idea in his head, then sketches it out before working on the graphics. He’s also deliberately used iconic images of the city like the vada pav and a bai to portray the typical Mumbaikar aspects.

While he has already uploaded 14 of them to his website, Yohan plans to come up with even more artworks as the ideas come to him. “My visuals are more youth-centric so I’m not sure how everyone will react. But I did want to create something interesting that would make people laugh. As of now these are created purely for myself, but I would love to have an exhibit sometime in the future,” he adds.

View more of Yohan’s works at www.yohanwadia.co.nr